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Shingles is a viral illness that affects a variety of locations throughout the body. It most often causes a painful skin rash on the trunk, abdomen or torso. Less commonly, the rash can be found on the arms or legs. Shingles may also affect the head, face, eyes, mouth or ear.
This band follows along a dermatome, which is an area of skin around one side of the body that is affected by one of the nerves from the spine. Shingles usually appears along just one dermatome. Shingles may also appear on a single side of the face, for example, in the area around the eye and the forehead.